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Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Regulations (22 Jan 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 438. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many pharmacists are concerned in relation to the draft legislation which proposes that the responsibility for implementing the falsified medicines directive will transfer from the pharmacy owner as per the EU directive to the dispensing pharmacists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2869/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers Funding (22 Jan 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if extra funding will be provided for additional berthing space at Howth Harbour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2495/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Facilities Provision (22 Jan 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 562. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when phase two of the National Indoor Arena will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2618/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jan 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Yesterday we learned from our colleague, Deputy Colm Brophy, Chairman of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight, that the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Mr. Watt, had refused to come before the committee to speak to it about what is a major project for, considering the massive overspend in the area of health. In particular, we have an interest in the huge...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I am delighted to have a brief opportunity to speak about this important Bill. It is long overdue. It is probably about 30 or 35 years overdue and it certainly does not go remotely far enough to vindicate tenants' rights and create a fair rental market in this country but even the small steps in this Bill are welcome as an attempt to begin to remedy the worst deficiencies in tenancy law and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (23 Jan 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 136. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 707 and 708 of 15 January 2019, the way in which there will be an increase of 170,000 personal assistant hours over the 2018 target without an increase in funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3158/19]

Directly Elected Mayors: Statements (24 Jan 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I found the Minister of State's speech disappointing and lacking ambition. He submitted his paper, Local Authority Leadership, Governance and Administration, and he considered many of the key aspects of setting up devolved directly elected administrations. I very much welcome the possibility that mayors will be elected in Cork City Council, Limerick city and county and in Waterford. As I...

Directly Elected Mayors: Statements (24 Jan 2019)

Tommy Broughan: At the end of the day, local people know best. The major problems that dramatically affect the Dublin region, including the shocking lack of affordable and social housing, the very backward state of the poor transport system compared to those in other European capitals of similar size and in the erratic ad hoc developer-led planning system, may all be traced back to a lack of vigorous local...

Directly Elected Mayors: Statements (24 Jan 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Who would have led them.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (24 Jan 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 21. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions he will undertake by the end of 2019 to curb single use plastic goods; the measurable targets for each quarter of 2019 in relation to same; the discussions he is having with other Departments in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3140/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Schemes (24 Jan 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of higher education access route places offered in universities and colleges here each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3565/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I join the Taoiseach in expressing condolences to the four bereaved families in north-west Donegal on their recent tragic loss. I also wish to express my total solidarity and that of my Independent colleagues with the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, whose members must begin the first of their 24-hour strikes tomorrow. As others have said, looking at nurses' pay scales and the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2019)

Tommy Broughan: I mentioned the issue of bilateral arrangements and discussions with the UK. Our distinguished journalist, Mr. Fintan O'Toole, says that geography is destiny. Is it the case that other countries that will be impacted by Brexit, like The Netherlands, France and Denmark, are beginning to make bilateral arrangements for a no-deal Brexit? The French Government is making arrangements with...

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Hear, hear.

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Tommy Broughan: Hear, hear.

No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jan 2019)

Tommy Broughan: One of the most regressive developments in economics from the late 1970s and early 1980s, in the Thatcher-Reagan era, was the process of securitisation and the bundling and selling of loans. The most despicable aspect of that development was the bundling and selling of mortgages and home loans. It has profoundly impacted on hundreds of thousands of Irish citizens, especially in the years of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Cases (29 Jan 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 71. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he and his EU counterparts have investigated the situation and welfare of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3775/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (29 Jan 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 94. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to continue to support humanitarian efforts in South Sudan; if Ireland will continue to support and fund conflict resolution and peacekeeping efforts in Sudan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3774/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Medals (29 Jan 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 109. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when the soldiers involved in the siege of Jadotville will receive medals; his plans to award medals posthumously; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4150/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Carbon Tax Implementation (29 Jan 2019)

Tommy Broughan: 178. To ask the Minister for Finance the work being carried out by his Department to address unfair and unequal probable impacts of future national policy on carbon taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4322/19]